2024 Year of the Dragon

Count back 12 years from 2024, 2012, 2000, 1988... If you were born in these years, congratulations, you are a dragon.

By the way, those born in 2000 are also dragons and also the millennial generation. My little girl is also a millennium born and also a dragon.

Don't ask what this dragon is, I'm talking about the years according to the Chinese calendar, which is one of the oldest calendars of us Turks. According to the ancient Chinese calendar, years are commemorated with animal symbols, and among these animals there are snakes, roosters, mice, horses, dogs and rabbits.

The dragon is also a member of this 12-animal calendar.

In fact, it was the official calendar used by China until 1945.

Although it is no longer an official calendar, it is still used by the public to determine special days that are especially important for China and to determine the gender of newborn children.

Russians also know this calendar.

Determining the gender of future children?

So how does that happen?

Of course, what I am about to write has no medical validity. In fact, in terms of statistics, it is said that it has a consistency of 50%, which means we cannot know. There is no scientific proof either.

But in China, people believe that they can determine the gender of their unborn child according to this calendar, and that is why it is still in use among the public and is never forgotten.

I get it, so how do they make this prediction?

First of all, you need to calculate your age according to the Chinese calendar, and this is not that easy.

Because this calendar, unlike the Gregorian calendar we use today, predicts that a year has 354 days.

It is 11 days shorter than our current calendar.

It is like the lunar calendar used in the Muslim world, that is, the Hijri calendar. However, in some years, since these 11 days are added as leap days to the end of the year, the number of days in that year becomes 384 days and the calculation becomes even more complicated.

There is no such regulation in the Hijri calendar, so come back father, come back, holidays and fasting fall on different dates every year.

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According to the Chinese calendar, in this case, everyone is at a different age than they actually are.

Since the mother's age is also taken into account when estimating the gender of the unborn child, the mother's age must first be calculated according to this calendar.

In order to make this calculation in practice, the starting days of the years are given in a table and you can find this list on the internet.

If your birth date is before the starting date of that year on the calendar, you can calculate your age according to the Chinese calendar by adding 1 to your age, and then adding 2 to your age.

Then, there is a formula based on the month of pregnancy and the age of the mother, and gender determination can be made according to that formula. There are also sites on the internet that make these calculations automatically.

Those who wish can also make plans by visiting these sites.

It's actually a difficult task, adjust your gender according to the Chinese calendar and pay attention to the year. Well, if you try to adjust it according to the zodiac sign, it won't work.

Does it at least hold the gender?

I don't know, maybe it does. If so many people still haven't forgotten this Chinese calendar just for this purpose, maybe it has a miracle.

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Let's come to 2024, the year of the dragon.

Those born in the year of the Dragon are considered idealists, perfectionists, not very flexible and self-conscious.

It is said that dragons are people full of life and enthusiasm. They were quickly loved in society and noticed immediately. They would think first and then speak, without immediately expressing an opinion. But they also loved to judge others.

I think these last features are the only bad thing.

They were generally very successful in their jobs. This situation stemmed from their instincts.

They were intelligent and also very generous.

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Of course, these are good words, how nice it is if you can be someone with these qualities just because you were born in the year of the dragon.

The way to be a good person actually starts with family education and manners. Naturally, genetic characteristics also play a role in a person's character, but the source of many of our behaviors are the personality traits we have added to our character from the structure of the society we live in.

The more the society is united and the more it attaches importance to human values, the more newly joined individuals grow up with those human values since their childhood.

I don't know how much these characteristics written in books or other people's discourse saying "you are a dragon, therefore you must have such and such features" have an impact on personality development, but perhaps these discourses also have an impact on our personality.

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In short, we are entering the year of the dragon this year, I wish this year to bring success and happiness to all dragons and all of us.

Let me not forget to make plenty of money, after all, earning is one of the needs on the path to happiness.

Health is also important, I wish you good health too.

By the way, seahorses look very similar to dragons, don't they? Could they be carrying dragon genes? Maybe dragons aren't extinct?

Dragon fossils have really been found, haven't they?

Or are dragons just a fantasy?

With love and respect to everyone from Moscow.